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Importance_Of_INTERNET
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SENSE OF EMPOWERMENT
Shorts for inter network. A set of computer networks that may
be dissimilar and are joined together by means of gateways that
handle data transfer and conversion of messages from the sending
networks’ protocols to those of the receiving network. The
genesis of the Internet was a decentralized network called
ARPANET created by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1969 to
facilitate communications in the event of a nuclear attack.
Currently the Internet offers a range of services to users, such
as e-mail, the World Wide Web, Usenet news, telnet, and others.
Information research is a dedication to learning. This needs
specific research skills, an awareness of research tools and
gifted mind. Without knowledge of and access to relevant
research worthy resources, your search will be severely limited
and doubtful. Internet is the only vast field of exploring which
provide us the source of research tools. If we give a name
explorer to Internet that wouldn’t be wrong, in a sense that
explorer itself means to inquire something or to examine
something. Internet is widely used in the field where there is a
work of research. Internet is not minimize to this field only,
it also provide us the best source of entertainment. Internet
had changed our lives in many ways, it had change the way we
communicate. It had galvanized or we can say demoralize the
postal services. However in the process, it had given us the
tremendous sense of empowerment. And it is the beauty of the
Internet that every web user has now become a potential
publisher. At one level internet is identified with triviality
and mediocrity, while at the other it is the best thing that
have happened to mankind after the invention of wheel. The most
important manifestation about Internet’s revolution was its
impact on communication. The days of snail-mail looked numbered,
the moment Internet arrived on the scene. Since E-mail was
accurate, reliable and convenient, it became the house hold
phenomena. Besides proving its utility as an effective
communication tool, e-mail has also come of age as an
interactive communication tool. Group users and Newsletters have
now become a mean of getting one’s point of view across other
person or group of people. Over the Internet we deal with all
aspects of data authentication, privacy, integrity, and
verification for transactions. For example, credit card
purchases via a World Wide Web browser require attention to
Internet security issues. To ensure that the credit card number
is not intercepted by an intruder or copied from the server
where the number is stored, and to verify that the credit card
number is actually sent by the person who claims to be sending
it. Internet Security and Acceleration Server software,
(application from Microsoft Corporation) to increase the
security and performance of Internet access for businesses.
Internet Security and Acceleration Server provides an enterprise
firewall and high-performance Web cache server to securely
manage the flow of information from the Internet. One of the
most important features relating to Internet trading field is
e-commerce. Although e-commerce is poise to become one of the
key forums of future trade within this decade, unfortunately,
Pakistan is way behind most of the countries of the region in
Internet connections essential for conducting this mode of
business. According to research 4.5 persons per 10,000 people in
Pakistan use this facility compared with 45 in India (the ratio
had increased over the past few years). It was found that
Singapore tops in the use of Internet facility in Asia-Pacific
where 2435 persons per 10,000 people avail this facility. The
highest percent of people using Internet was in US where 4501
persons per 10,000 have access to Internet. A study of Internet
use in Pakistan revealed that the usage is mostly at individual
level in main cities where families use this mode to maintain
regular contacts with their relatives living abroad in the west.
It was found that, there was a limited use of Internet in the
country for e-commerce; this facility is availed mostly by the
big corporations and the already established exporters, who with
their limited knowledge of computer use this facility mostly to
maintain quick contacts with their regular customer abroad. It
basically requires a web-site builder, which host personalized,
advertising free web-sites in a variety of layouts that supports
customize logos and on-line chat capabilities. It is also noted
that there were only 100 web-sites a decade ago, which have now
grown to over 10 million. Pakistan’s share in these web-sites is
negligible. Most of the web-sites operating in Pakistan are not
updated. The nation loses its credibility when most of its
web-sites are out dated and provide stale information. Acquiring
computers is not enough. It is regrettable that most of the
business concerns use computers as a typewriter and data bank.
The computers in these offices are not even linked through a
common server. Internet is considered as a luxury instead of
necessity. This attitude has to be changed for accepting the
challenges of globalization. An Internet service provider said,
the per hour cost charged by the ISP in Pakistan is not very
high as it is declared by many entrepreneurs. It said the cost
looks higher when the user indulge in surfing unwanted sites…
while targeted surfing would not only bring huge benefits to the
users but also cut the internet charges.
BY: WASEEM HAIDER
About the author:
I am doing my Software Engineering from University of
Karachi(Department of Computer Science). I have published my
article on this site named Importance of Technical Education and
get a great response which encourage me to write something about
backbone of global village era.
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